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Life Would Be Perfect If I Lived in That House
Meghan Daum
Knopf
May 2010
On Sale: May 4, 2010
256 pages ISBN: 0307270661 EAN: 9780307270665 Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
From the acclaimed author and columnist: a laugh-out-loud
journey into the world of real estate—the true story of one
woman’s “imperfect life lived among imperfect houses” and
her quest for the four perfect walls to call home. After an itinerant suburban childhood and countless moves
as a grown-up—from New York City to Lincoln, Nebraska; from
the Midwest to the West Coast and back—Meghan Daum was
living in Los Angeles, single and in her mid-thirties, and
devoting obscene amounts of time not to her writing career
or her dating life but to the pursuit of property: scouring
Craigslist, visiting open houses, fantasizing about finding
the right place for the right price. Finally, near the
height of the real estate bubble, she succumbed, depleting
her life’s savings to buy a 900-square-foot bungalow, with
a garage that “bore a close resemblance to the ruins of
Pompeii” and plumbing that “dated back to the Coolidge
administration.” From her mother’s decorating manias to her own “hidden
room” dreams, Daum explores the perils and pleasures of
believing that only a house can make you whole. With
delicious wit and a keen eye for the absurd, she has given
us a pitch-perfect, irresistible tale of playing a lifelong
game of house.
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